Rangers administration 25-point penalty threat

[ian1964 10,409]

by EWING GRAHAME

 

Rangers would be deducted 25 points should they be forced into administration this season – even though Hearts were given just a 15-point penalty last year.

 

Under new rules introduced last summer when the SPL took over the Scottish Football League to form the SPFL, clubs which suffer more than one insolvency event in the space of five years will be hit with a 25-point penalty.

 

The SPFL board believes that, since Lord Nimmo Smith ruled, at a hearing last February, that the current club was a continuation of the same entity which went into liquidation in October 2012 when finding them guilty of not disclosing payments to their players, Rangers should face the heavier sanction.

 

Rangers are currently 23 points clear of second-placed Dunfermline at the top of League One.

 

The Ibrox club first entered administration in February 2012 and former director Dave King has warned that it could happen again.

 

SPFL sources also confirmed that Hearts will start 2014-15 on minus 15 points if they have not emerged from administration before the beginning of the season.

 

http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/spfl-lower-divisions/rangers-administration-25-point-penalty-threat-1-3281694

[compo 6,122]

I don't think there will be any second admin

[ian1964 10,409]

I don't think there will be any second admin

 

I didn't think there would be a first!

[der Berliner 3,239]

Rest assured, were we 30 points clear, they would make that a 35-point penalty. In your dreams, Ewing, in your wet wet dreams.

[bluebear54 0]

Well that's certainly some wishful thinking from the Scotsman.

How that rag is fallen in recent years.

[Gribz 743]

If we get hit with that then we pull out of the Scottish Cup, hit them back where it hurts.

[andy steel 0]

If them's the rules, clear enough before the fact, then that's fair enough.

 

It's when they change the rules as they go along that gets me.

[Ser Barristan Selmy 222]

Rest assured, were we 30 points clear, they would make that a 35-point penalty. In your dreams, Ewing, in your wet wet dreams.

No, the rules quite clearly state 25 points.

 

I don't think us going into admin again is remotely fantasy. It wouldn't surprise me one bit.

[Hildy 0]

In some ways, this is quite amusing.

 

If administration happens, the Celtic support will be shouting from the rooftops that we are the same club and that the higher points penalty is justified.

 

How strange then that administration 2, if it happens, will probably do more to demonstrate to the masses that we are the same club then anything that has gone before.

[Juancornetto 1]

As soon as you see who's written it you know exactly how it's going to go. File under bhitter tim.